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Human Rights Commission – Canterbury Earthquakes: review and appeal rights
The Human Rights Commission have launched three web pages for those affected by earthquakes. The first, Canterbury Earthquakes: review and appeal rights, is here. The introduction to the web page...
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Buying a house needing repairs – problems with aspects of transferring the...
The latest CanCERN newsletter (29 June 2012) includes an important item headed Assignment of the Deed of Rights. The CanCERN website is here and the newsletters are here. DISCLAIMER: Although I work...
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Transferring insurance policies – more on the issues
In the previous post the unnoticed hazards arising from the transfer of insurance entitlements was raised. The situation seems to be widening and getting worse. The following is from a CanCERN media...
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Assigning insurance policies
The Press has an article on the problems with assignment of insurance policies written by Duncan Cotterill lawyers Richard Lang and Stephanie Grieve. It is a useful article and provides some background...
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Dealing with hard bargainers
Everyone with a damaged house or in the residential Red Zone has found, or one day will find, themselves negotiating with EQC, their insurance companies and those who work for them (Fletcher EQR,...
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Land zoning reviews–Part 4
Parts 1-3 appeared on the blog at the end of June (links to them are at the end). The general theme of those items was that the review process was flawed and, no matter what the calibre of those doing...
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Disturbing public order in the name of protest
Last year’s TIME Magazine Person of the Year was the protester. Public protest actions brought down dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. The Occupy movement put economic inequality and financial...
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Community Law Canterbury – update
Community Law Canterbury (CLC) reopened for 2013 from today. For appointments and opening hours contact them on 03 3666 870. The outreach clinics will reopen the week of the 14th of January. For the...
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Southern Response – update on Build options especially cross lease properties
Southern Response have updated their webpage on options available to those with rebuilds. Part of the new information relates to people with cross leased properties. The update is here and the cross...
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Insurers – Changing a rebuild to a repair.
Today’s Press has an article by Lane Neave law firm partner Dr Duncan Webb on insurers changing a rebuild into a repair. This article is part of an on-going “agony uncle” series on how the law applies...
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